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Would it be possible to add the User-Agent property to the HTTP request header when making a connection to IHS Global Insight Databases? My outbound HTTP traffic is filtered and requests that do not include a pre-approved User-Agent are rejected by the gateway with a 403: NotSupportedBrowser error.

Currently, the HTTP request for connection to an IHS Global Insight Database looks like this:



Notice the User-Agent is not part of that header as it normally is when performing other remote operations in EViews like checking for updates:

I've submitted this question to the DataInsight team that developed the EDX control that EViews uses. At this point, there's isn't an easy way to adjust the UserAgent field on their connections, but if they come up with something, I'll let you know.

Steve

I took a quick look at some of the network settings for DataInsight and it does have support for specifying a proxy server, but there isn't any setting for UserAgent.

If you setup a proxy server on your local machine, then point DataInsight to it, that might allow you to get around the UserAgent issue as the proxy server may provide override the request with it's own header values. To setup the proxy server, you can follow these instructions in Appendix A in this PDF document:
http://cdn1.eviews.com/IHSDataInsightBrowser.pdf

Steve